Ezra says the scandals are falling apart

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May 16, 2013 at 4:20 PM

I don’t know that I fully agree with Ezra Klein on THIS STUFF, but he’s one of the brightest young pundits around, and what he says merits consideration:

Things go wrong in government. Sometimes itís just bad luck. Sometimes itís rank incompetence. Sometimes itís criminal wrongdoing. Most of the time you never hear about it. Or, if you do hear about it, the media eventually gets bored talking about it (see warming, global).

But every so often an instance of government wrongdoing sprouts wings and becomes something quite exciting: A political scandal.

The crucial ingredient for a scandal is ...

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Pat Cunningham

I don’t know that I fully agree with Ezra Klein on THIS STUFF, but he’s one of the brightest young pundits around, and what he says merits consideration:

Things go wrong in government. Sometimes itís just bad luck. Sometimes itís rank incompetence. Sometimes itís criminal wrongdoing. Most of the time you never hear about it. Or, if you do hear about it, the media eventually gets bored talking about it (see warming, global).

But every so often an instance of government wrongdoing sprouts wings and becomes something quite exciting: A political scandal.

The crucial ingredient for a scandal is ...

Read more

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